The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #25-20, Air Date: 05/12/25
The latest from the ensemble Les Cris de Paris gives us the challenging late Renaissance Italian school of composers like Gesualdo, Rossi, d’India, and some rare works by Lacorcia and others.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-25, Air Date: 06/20/22
Tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro joins us with his recent recording dedicated to the composer, singer, poet and maybe murderer Francesco Rasi (1574-1621).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-15, Air Date: 04/05/21
In early spring of 1963, John Elliot Gardiner’s mother created an Easter play for their small church in Dorset; for the 55th anniversary, it was recreated for a special recording project we hear this week.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-14, Air Date: 03/29/21
The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music from the Passion and into Easter; part 2 takes us from Good Friday to Easter day itself.
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